Dubeolsik Key Position Practice · Finger Guide

Why start with position drills

Position drills are not about memorising letters; they teach each finger which keys it owns. QuizLab's drills have twelve steps: left-hand consonants on the home row (ㅁㄴㅇㄹㅎ), right-hand vowels on the home row, then the top row, the bottom row, single final consonants, the Shift keys for tense consonants and ㅒ·ㅖ, and finally step 12, which mixes the whole keyboard into real words.

Each step's text is about 30 characters long and introduces only four or five new keys, so even typing slowly while watching the colour-coded finger guide takes about a minute. When you pass a step you can move straight on, and the step number in the address bar (?step=) changes too, so you can pick up where you left off.

Reading the on-screen keyboard and moving between steps

• The key with the bold outline is the first letter part you need to press now. The other letter parts of the same syllable get a lighter outline, so when 강 is next, ㄱ is bold and ㅏ and ㅇ are faint.
• The small character at the bottom of a key is what that key types with Shift (ㅃ·ㅉ·ㄸ·ㄲ·ㅆ·ㅒ·ㅖ). The on-screen keyboard does not draw a Shift key, so when a key is highlighted for its small character, read it as "hold Shift as well".
• Matching fingers on the left and right hands share a colour (in the light theme: index sky blue, middle light green, ring apricot, little finger pink). The index fingers each cover two columns in the middle, so they own more keys than any other finger.
• The "Finger guide off" button removes the colours and keeps only the next-key highlight. Use it to check whether your accuracy holds without the colour hints.
• The Previous Step and Next Step buttons let you jump to any step in any order. Finishing the text shows that step's speed, accuracy and grade at once, and the result is saved under position drills, feeding the per-mode best and the keyboard heatmap on the typing home page.

Goals and a practice routine

• Steps 1–3 (home row): the goal is typing with your eyes on the screen, not speed. Repeat a step until accuracy is above 95%.
• Steps 4–9 (top and bottom rows): build the habit of returning to the home row. Bring each finger back right after it presses a key.
• Steps 10–11 (final consonants and Shift): this is where most people stall. Press Shift with the little finger of the opposite hand and go slowly.
• Once you clear step 12 (full keyboard) above 95% accuracy, move on to word practice. One step a day takes you round the whole keyboard within two weeks.

Common questions about position drills

I can already type. Do I still need position drills?

Yes, if you hunt and peck or type with two or three fingers. If the typo heatmap on the typing home page shows mistakes clustered on one row (for example ㅋㅌㅊㅍ on the bottom row), redo just the steps for that row.

Is there a pass mark for each step?

No. Once you type the text to the end you get a result and can move on, whatever your accuracy. That makes your own standard important. If three tries at the same step still leave you below 95% accuracy, going back one step to recheck finger positions is usually faster than pushing ahead.

Why is step 10 (final consonants) so much slower?

A final consonant is not a new key; it is the same key as the initial consonant pressed again. But within one syllable your hands now go left, right, left: 강 is left index (ㄱ), right middle (ㅏ), left middle (ㅇ). Step 10 opens with a line like 각 간 갈 감 갑 강, where the first consonant and vowel stay fixed and only the final changes, so focus on the position of that one final key at first.

Does a tense consonant count as two strokes because of Shift?

No. ㄲ·ㄸ·ㅃ·ㅆ·ㅉ and ㅒ·ㅖ count as one stroke even though Shift is held. Compound vowels such as ㅘ or ㅢ, on the other hand, take two keys (ㅗ+ㅏ, ㅡ+ㅣ) and count as two. The word 예의 from step 11 is ㅇ+ㅖ and ㅇ+ㅡ+ㅣ, five strokes in all.

I press the key shown on screen but get a different letter.

First check that your computer's Korean input method is set to Dubeolsik. If input is in English mode, or another layout such as Sebeolsik is selected, the same key produces a different letter. Even on a keyboard with no Hangul printed on the keys, the Dubeolsik layout is the same, so just follow the on-screen keyboard.